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Summary: Highly readable book
Review: Excellent writing,wonderful reading. Highly enjoyable romance with accurate depiction of life in the 1880's in black townships. Ms. Jenkins educates and entertains. Looking forward to her 5th novel. Keep up the good work
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Summary: Always and forever
Review: From the minute you start the book you are hooked. Beverly Jenkins is an excellent story writer. I would purchase any book that she writes.
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Summary: I enjoyed everything about this book.
Review: I just recently started reading Beverly Jenkins' books, and I have loved everyone of them. Dix and Katherine are such a wonderful, exciting couple. How can anyone not fall in love with Dix? He is everything a woman wants in a man. Katherine is great too. She is ambitious, independent, and beautiful. I love how Mrs. Jenkins takes African-American history and incorporates it into her books. I loved Katherine's father, and I remember reading about the Black man who he was fashioned after of. I love this book. Beverly Jenkins keep up the good work!!! You have a fan forever!!!
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Summary: Outstanding!!!!
Review: I really loved this book. Dixon Wildhorse was something else. I have all of her books and I enjoyed them all, however, "Topaz" is my all time favorite. Keep using the gift God gave you. Looking forward to reading the next one.
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Summary: Always and forever
Review: Is Jenkins the best historical romance novelist of all times or what!! Well she is in my book. I loved Topaz. This novel was very rich in Black Seminole and African American history,"American History." The characters in this one are truly unforgettable. Dixon Wildhorse was a man after my own heart. I reall don't blame Kate Love for falling in love with Dix even though the circumstances would suggest her dislike for him. I loved the way their love developed for each other over time. Even more Jenkins once again created characters that will be remembered for a long time to come. It is one thing to have a great romance in a book, but when you add great history, great characters, and a great connection of all those things, the novel is truly in a class all by itself. That ladies and gentlemen, can also be said about the author of that great novel. Love you work, you, Beverly Jenkins, are truly in a class by yourself!!
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Summary: The Long Awaited "Topaz!"
Review: Is Jenkins the best historical romance novelist of all times or what!! Well she is in my book. I loved Topaz. This novel was very rich in Black Seminole and African American history,"American History." The characters in this one are truly unforgettable. Dixon Wildhorse was a man after my own heart. I reall don't blame Kate Love for falling in love with Dix even though the circumstances would suggest her dislike for him. I loved the way their love developed for each other over time. Even more Jenkins once again created characters that will be remembered for a long time to come. It is one thing to have a great romance in a book, but when you add great history, great characters, and a great connection of all those things, the novel is truly in a class all by itself. That ladies and gentlemen, can also be said about the author of that great novel. Love you work, you, Beverly Jenkins, are truly in a class by yourself!!
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Summary: Action packed western/steamy romance/captivating history
Review: Jaded by contemporary novels and so called historical romances, I was drawn by the cover of "Topaz". I read the back and it never saw the rack again. Thus began a renewed love for the genre of historical romances. This book combined all of my interests in westerns, mysteries, black history, and romance. Kate Love's independence and sharp wit was wonderfully tempered by the magnaminous Marshall Dix Wildhorse. "Topaz" reminds me of "The Taming of the Shrew", but with more sass and flare. I laughed out loud, cried at times, and turned each page with my breath bated in anticipation. I learned so much about the lesser-known people of the western frontier of the late 1800's. Beverly Jenkins is truly a scholar and a gifted storyteller. There are even historical references at the back!!! I want to make Beverly Jenkins my best-friend, I think we share a healthy appreciation of a gorgeous black man with a thick moustache.
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Summary: Action packed western/steamy romance/captivating history
Review: Jaded by contemporary novels and so called historical romances, I was drawn by the cover of "Topaz". I read the back and it never saw the rack again. Thus began a renewed love for the genre of historical romances. This book combined all of my interests in westerns, mysteries, black history, and romance. Kate Love's independence and sharp wit was wonderfully tempered by the magnaminous Marshall Dix Wildhorse. "Topaz" reminds me of "The Taming of the Shrew", but with more sass and flare. I laughed out loud, cried at times, and turned each page with my breath bated in anticipation. I learned so much about the lesser-known people of the western frontier of the late 1800's. Beverly Jenkins is truly a scholar and a gifted storyteller. There are even historical references at the back!!! I want to make Beverly Jenkins my best-friend, I think we share a healthy appreciation of a gorgeous black man with a thick moustache.
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Summary: My! My! My!
Review: Katherine Love was an excellent newspaper woman. In order to get the goods on a scam artist, she agrees to be his wife. At least that what she made him think. Katherine had planned to escape before the wedding. Meanwhile, Katherine's theiving father Bart Love, was giving Kate to another man, Dix Wildhorse, the Marshall. Bart owed Dix for stealing cows and selling them to the government. But in order to give his daughters hand in marriage, they had to rescue her from the clutches of the scam artist Rupert Samuels. After meeting Mr. Wildhorse, Kate didn't know which one was worse, Dix or Samuels. Samuels promised to put her in a sanitarium after the wedding, so she decided to go with Dix. This is where the adventure begins. This story had alot of different feelings: Happiness, sadness, anticipation, gratitude and courage. I loved the way Katherine showed her courage in every situation presented to her. Her geniune feeling for her husband showing. Dix never in his life showed an emotion such as love to any woman. I would really proud of him, the way he treated Katherine.You could tell Dix loved her. As always in Beverly Jenkins stories you get a love story, but also you get a wonderful black history lesson. I thought Indigo was my favorite, but Topaz just knocked it to #2. All of Ms. Jenkins books are definitely something you will treasure for a lifetime.
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Summary: My! My! My!
Review: Katherine Love was an excellent newspaper woman. In order to get the goods on a scam artist, she agrees to be his wife. At least that what she made him think. Katherine had planned to escape before the wedding. Meanwhile, Katherine's theiving father Bart Love, was giving Kate to another man, Dix Wildhorse, the Marshall. Bart owed Dix for stealing cows and selling them to the government. But in order to give his daughters hand in marriage, they had to rescue her from the clutches of the scam artist Rupert Samuels. After meeting Mr. Wildhorse, Kate didn't know which one was worse, Dix or Samuels. Samuels promised to put her in a sanitarium after the wedding, so she decided to go with Dix. This is where the adventure begins. This story had alot of different feelings: Happiness, sadness, anticipation, gratitude and courage. I loved the way Katherine showed her courage in every situation presented to her. Her geniune feeling for her husband showing. Dix never in his life showed an emotion such as love to any woman. I would really proud of him, the way he treated Katherine.You could tell Dix loved her. As always in Beverly Jenkins stories you get a love story, but also you get a wonderful black history lesson. I thought Indigo was my favorite, but Topaz just knocked it to #2. All of Ms. Jenkins books are definitely something you will treasure for a lifetime.
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